A bee-inspired visual homing using color images

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 159-164

  Rizzi, A ^a   Bianco, G ^a   Cassinis, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Landmark recognition; Mobile robots; Robot navigation; Visual self localization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION CONTROL; NAVIGATION; ROBOTICS;

LANDMARK RECOGNITION; SELF-LOCALIZATION; VISUAL HOMING;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0032206841     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(98)00045-1     Document Type: Article

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